As we're having our first spate of thunderstorms of the season here, I thought this was a good word to be able to bandy about. I like the first definition, too.

A pair of related words is fulgurate and fulgurous, darting about like, or being related to, lightning. I was wondering if one might be able to tell their rambunctious children to calm down and stop fulgurating about the house.

Life is like playing chess with chessmen who each have thoughts and feelings and motives of their own.